Modern History to 20th Century: c 1700 to c 1900

'Discovering the Civil War' peels back 150 years of accumulated analysis, interpretation, and opinion to reveal a Civil War that is little-known. F...

In the course of his long poem An Airce, 'The Ark', the Jacobite poet Alexander MacDonald shows the Campbells being subjected to trial by water for...

A new edition draws on fresh evidence from archive sources--including decoded secret correspondence--to peel back the layers of misinformation obsc...

In the midst of the Philippine-American War, twenty-two-year-old Robert Dexter Carter served in Manila as a civilian quartermaster clerk. Through h...

Twilight of the Romanovs opens a door onto the world of pre-revolutionary Russia in original photographs taken during the last decades of Romanov r...

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries northwestern Mexico was the scene of ongoing conflict among three distinct social groupsIndians, religi...

When Stamford Raffles married the handsome, elegant Sophia Hull in February 1817 and a year later welcomed the arrival of his first child, Charlott...

In the 18th century shotgun weddings were not unusual, but in most cases it wasn't the bride that was holding the gun. So began the stormy marriage...

Many visitors to the former royal estate at Tatoi know nothing about the identity of the buildings and the history of the estate that was the setti...

No state has embraced and preserved its civil rights history more than Alabama. Nor is there a place where that history is richer. Alabama's Civil ...

William III (1689-1702) & Mary II (1689-94) (Britain's only ever 'joint monarchs') changed the course of the entire country's history, coming t...

Britain in 1846 was a nation in the grip of dramatic change. As the Industrial Revolution reached its height, people were flooding from countryside...

The sweeping crinolines, corsets, bustles, bonnets and parasols of Victorian Britain are indispensable to our period dramas, and their influences c...

This illuminating volume provides a new understanding of the subjective identity and public roles of Russia's Europeanized elite between the years ...

Thomas Murray's The Story of the Irish in Argentina was first published in New York in 1919. During the nineteenth century, nearly 45,000 Irish-bor...

I thought my men were invincible, admitted Robert E. Lee. A string of battlefield victories through 1862 had culminated in the spring of 1863 with...

Winner of the 2012 Bancroft Prize in American HistoryFinalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in History To most people living in the West, the Louisia...

Explore historic documents, letters, ephemera, and artifacts, including fascinating finds from the Navy''s most recent underwater excavation of the...

The Tears of the Rajasis a sweeping history of the British in India, seen through the experiences of a single Scottish family. For a century the Lo...

With the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the next two centuries for France would be tumultuous. Bestselling hi...